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China’s priority must be to stabilize the economy
The steady weakening in growth does not demonstrate the inevitability of the country’s economic decline
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Is the West sleepwalking into a war with China?
Policy-makers need to tread carefully as a conflict between Beijing and Taipei would dwarf Russia’s war in Ukraine
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Beijing will be the real winner of the Ukraine war
Why we need to understand the ‘immense threat’ to the West posed by the Chinese Communist Party
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Declining dollar dominance and China’s dilemma
Only a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would see the world split into Western and Eastern economic blocs
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Sino-Russian ties strengthen the Quad’s resolve
Australia, Japan, India and US show collective strength against the ‘authoritarian challenge’ to the world order
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Pearl Harbor attack offers haunting lessons for today
China’s growing influence has slowly focused geopolitical attention back to the Pacific Islands
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President Xi Jinping plays the power politics card
His speech at the Boao Forum was clearly designed to emphasize China’s global leadership aspirations
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Beijing’s war against foreign media has backfired
China’s bluster against the western press may play to nationalist sentiments at home but it has bombed overseas
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Xi hijacks ‘people power’ to hold democracies hostage
His plan to link the Communist Party with nearly 1.4 billion Chinese citizens is aimed at muzzling Beijing’s critics
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US-China Cold War will continue to send a shiver across the world
Pressure mounts on Beijing to live up to its promises of ‘opening up’ by rolling out a ‘level playing’ field policy








